He broke the news during her dissertation defense prep session. The timing was deliberate, cruel. The smugness on his face was almost comical, and it boiled her blood. She nodded, but her stomach churned.

The moment he walked out, she slammed her fist on the table, scattering her notes. Every paper, every marker, became a symbol of her dashed hopes and dreams. She felt a burning need to lash out, to punish someone.

She slumped in her chair, a wave of despair washing over her. She knew that she would somehow make it, but the path ahead was now shrouded in shadows, cast by his indifference.

Emotion: insulted

Cluster: Anger / Hostility
PC1 (Valence): -0.98 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): 1.46

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion insulted. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 insulted stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the insulted emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the insulted vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
l0.354
0.277
0.267
C0.237
🤬0.233
Suppressed:
own-0.325
давно-0.229
adventurous-0.223
soon-0.219
optimistic-0.217